Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-25

light drab color and is three stories high,
with stone basement. 1t is somewhat
( above the avenue, having been built on q
/ terrace, and this together with its pic
! turesque porch gives it q striking and no.
! ticeable appearance.
! Catering the hous" you are struck with
| the elegance of the filishings. There are
I four rooms on the first floor, with wide
hail running the length of the house. The
first room you enter is the psrlor. It is
exquisitely furnished-Berlin rugs cover
the floors except at the edges where you
can see the tnlald floors, bright anthracite
fires burn briskly in the open CRATES, the
beautifully carved mautels are ornament
ed with the rsrest OF bric-s-brac snd the
walls are resplendent in fresco and taste
fully crowded, with pictures in gilded
frames. The furniture is beautiful and
costly and scattered about the rooms are
a thousand and one things gathered in
years Of travel.
The pictures, paintings and engravings
that adorn the walls of every room in the
boUse, need more than Q passing notice
10 the front parlors some beautiful water
cOlors attract the eye. They are all well
selected and valuable and each tells its
own story without the aid of the critics
explanation. There are also few costly
oil paintings, but for the most part the
pictures are painted cngravings ana pref
ty water colors mounted in rich frames.
Back of and next 10 the psrlor is the
family library. Here is collected
splendid library of books. They are
richly bound books like handsome
men in holiday attire; there are volumes
in sheepskin reminding one of dignifled
and pompous lawyers; there are dainty
poems in blue and gilt looking like fash
ionsble bellies, and then there are useful
looking volumes that make US think of
the working men and women OF the
country. But this is not the only room
in the house where you will find books.
They are like the pictures: you will lind
them everywhere. And nothing in house
makes the cultured visitor feel more at
home. A room without books is like a
house without woman and children. 1t
is as deso!ate to an intelligent man as q
cell in police station.
From the library you enter the dining
room. 1t is one of the most eXquisitely
finished and furnished rooms in the house.
It is finished in oak like the famous din
ing halls of old England, and in Its clos
CTS 1Ou Will uIIi OuC VI GALC SuOlNCSG SO1-
lections of china to be found in America.
Mrs. Allison took the greatest pride in
her china and the Senator himself became
greatly interested in assisting her in get
ting up the collection. On the mas
sive table the caller will always lind
flowers and large dish of fruit from
which he is invited to help himself. You
will notice rather strange piece of furni
~, lSn;,,
up stairs you will see its counterpart.
One and about the only crotcnet Senator
Allison ms is his choice of chairs. When
a. home he will sit in but one kind of
cheir, and that is made expressly for him.
1t is very large, made of OAK and is beau
tifully carved, with very high back sur
mouated by cushioned rest for his head.
After the Senator has eaten dinner he
generally throws newspaper over his
face, leans back on the rest ard takes o !
short EeSta